2008 Award Presenter

Arthur Hull Hayes, M.D. Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; former Provost and Dean of, New York Medical College

Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., M.D. was born in Highland Park, Michigan in 1933 and raised in the
suburbs of New York City and San Francisco. He received his A.B. in philosophy magna cum
laude from Santa Clara University in 1955 and, as a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate degree from
Oxford University in philosophy, politics and economics in 1957. He studied medicine at
Georgetown and Cornell Universities and received an M.D. from Cornell University in 1964. He
graduated with a NIH post graduate fellowship.

Following his internship, military service, residency and a fellowship in clinical
pharmacology, Dr. Hayes was Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Associate
Dean for Academic Programs at Cornell Medical School. He then went to Pennsylvania State
University Medical School as Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Director of Clinical
Pharmacology.

In 1981 he was appointed Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration by President Reagan
and in 1983 became Provost and Dean and Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at New York
Medical College. In 1986 he became the president of E.M. Pharmaceuticals, a division of E.
Merck of Germany. After five years with E. Merck, he founded MediScience Associates, a
consulting organization, part of Nelson Communications, Inc. MediScience was closed in 2005
when Dr. Hayes retired.

Dr. Hayes serves on a number of commercial and pro bono boards for directors, received three
honorary degrees and numerous awards and has been a visiting professor at a number of
institutions. He has consulted for a dozen foreign governments, authored over a hundred
professional papers, trained many clinical pharmacologists and delivered over 2500
lectures.

Dr. Hayes is married to Barbara Anne (Carey), has three married children and seven
grandchildren. He recently retired and devotes his time to family, community and
professional activities.

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